Mites
Mighty Mites
They hide in your bed and breed on your face. They’re smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
By Rob Dunn
Photographs by Martin Oeggerli
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National Geographic mite article
I caught one of these spider mites on my body
My heart almost stopped…
I felt something climbing up my shirt. I have been wearing no bra for the past 10 days or so, and loose shirts so I can catch a critter before it bites… some bites are really nasty and don’t want to heal.
So I reached there, and there it was, greenish spider mite, an adult specimen. Of course I had nothing to put it into, so I killed it, but now I am totally restless, it feels like hundreds are crawling on me… the mind is a very interesting equipment.
Part 2: I decided to not let the situation keep me up any longer, I haven’t slept much for the past five nights, so mind over matter… I’ll sleep.
That was both a big mistake and a big blessing. I did wake up, but by that time I had 10 nymphs bitten me, causing pimple-like phenomenon… now you know where those things come from that look like a pimple, but they are hardened skin. Spider mite bites.
What seems to be working – spider mites
For spider mites: I have been able to decimate their population with Diatomaceous Earth both on the body and internally. They use your colon and maybe even your vagina to lay eggs and for the larvae to reach critical development when it can survive and become a spider mite.
These pre-mites, or nymphs are soft, and so are easily damaged by the diatomaceous earth’s sharp edges.
The regime needs to be kept up: a seeming lull in their number can balloon back to full scale (hundreds) in a day or two of not taking the DE.
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News on the fight against the microscopic biting mites
Biting Mites… News.
A few things:
Most discovery comes through mistakes.
I had already known that butter causes the mite population explode, but… you know, sometimes you just have to make the same mistake twice.
So I made my green beans with butter: big mistake. That night I didn’t sleep much from all the itching and biting.
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